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[Guest guest]

Hi,

there is the advice, to count in every pose up to 5 breaths. If doing

so, you are about 20-30 seconds in nearly every pose. I've made the

exprience, after forget the counting and only concentrate on the

propper alignment, first I was much more longer in the pose, second

it was much more effective, the breath was going very free (to tell

the truth I wonder if I doing Iyengar on Ashtanga-basis...?! hell).

This is a very interesting subject, it was "some years ago" here in

discussion also, but without a solution. What are your experiences

about the duration you "rest", "live" and breath in every asana?

Could you really enjoy it, could you feel your body and energy

moving, if you only rest there for about 30 seconds? Sometimes it

looks for me like a "rush-hour-yoga".

I remember a video from Sarah Powers (class on Hawai), where she let

the class stay in the poses much longer than only 5 breats.

(I also contemplate the subject of the most effective way for the

body to breath. If you should breath very deep and smooth, it's not

possible to combine it with the way of the 1st series like we're

doing imo.).Lu

[Guest guest]

I didn't think there was a written in stone rule that said you can't

hold a pose for more than five breaths.

[Guest guest]

Pattabhi Jois is counting up to 5 in the rhythm of the breath - yes,

this is said in every video, in every book, - or am I wrong? If you

don't do so, you are not practicing Ashtanga-Yoga - and, finally, you

are a "fraud" (ask Senor PW)... Lu

 

 

ashtanga yoga, "lashannasmall"

<lashannasmall@h...> wrote:

> I didn't think there was a written in stone rule that said you

can't

> hold a pose for more than five breaths.